Many things happened in my posting absence; I went to sleep and even went to school for 5/7ths of a week, but the most memorable is the witnessing of a massive house fire up on my street.

It was about 8:00pm, Thursday just gone by, when I went to close my window (to keep those pesky mosquitoes from attacking me in my sleep), when I saw a large plume of smoke. The smoke was an awful shade of grey - not your typical fire. I then started to video the smoke plume, before some sense kicked in and I realised it was a house fire. Sirens could be heard softly crying in the distance. I dashed out the door to witness the greatest event on my street for 20 years (great in the sense that it was significant).

“Oh wowzor”, I said to myself, in my brain. Fire was much more intense when I first witnessed it (which I didn’t put a photo up of because the dusk of day made it difficult to get a steady shot in low-light without an anti-shake facility), and within 5 minutes of the men in yellow (firemen) arrived, the inferno was reduced to white puffs of smoke.

I think my brain is working really slow these days, but it took me until the next morning to realise that a guy from my school lives there, which is wowzor multiplied by two. Day light revealed the extent of the damage, with over half of the house ‘painted’ in matte black; the car (burnt) was still in the garage too.

Yes, the greatest thing I’ve seen on my street in 20 years (well actually, it’s 17 years).

We got two new Cockatiel birdies on Sunday. Here are some photos.

They look extremely similar. However one is younger and has more colouring on it. The younger one hasn’t had it’s crest thing developed yet. They can’t walk as of yet, however the older one is learning, and have yet to be weaned. The older one also flaps it’s wings in their temporary home, which is a box.

It’s been *counts* 10 days since we got the two birds. Now they are able to fly, walk and stand on sticks. They have yet to move on from the ‘baby food’ we have given them since they have arrived at my house. Both of them are very close to humans, and are always crying out to be released out of their cages. One of them is going to a new home in the near future. We’re training them to talk, but they have not mimicked a word/phrase or tune as of yet.

I have put up 3 new banner images which I took yesterday, Sunday. To view them, select a fast loading page, then clicking on refresh multiple times until you spot an image which you have yet to come across.